Programmatic Perspectives

Editorial Philosophy

The editors of Programmatic Perspectives regard the journal as a

• journal shared by a community,
• forum for the exchange of ideas and scholarship pertaining to technical communication and related pedagogy and program administration,
• living classroom for teaching the scholastic, writing, and editorial practices that the technical communication community recognizes, accepts, and applies to scholarship, and
• site for mentorship of writers, scholars, and administrators.

Sections of the Journal

Articles. These articles initiate, extend, and sustain scholarly conversations about the administration of academic programs in technical, scientific, and professional communication. They employ various methods of investigation and range from 6,000-10,000 words. Articles should follow the APA documentation style.

 

Program Showcase. These articles showcase academic programs in the family of Technical and Scientific Communication. The purpose of the showcase is to share a sense of history, identity, engagement, and change in the administration of our academic sites for professional development. Each program in our community is a response to some local need and is created and administered with a sense of both local and broader community, academic, and professional values. This section seeks to capture the knowledge, experience, and conceptual frameworks that drive our administrative activities. In other words, the showcase seeks to capture what is useful, interesting, and challenging about the administration of a specific program, with the ultimate goal of building upon our shared knowledge.

 

Keynote. The first issue of each year will include the keynote presentation from the previous year's annual meeting. If available and approved by teh speaker, audio or video clips will accompany the written text.

 

Editorials. Editorials are short position statements, generally 2,000-3,000 words, written by any CPTSC member, including the journal's editors. Relevant programmatic or administrative topics that do not replicate position statements published in the proceedings will be considered for the journal.

 

In Memoriam. This section offers tributes to influential members of the CPTSC community who have passed on. When possible, multiple celebrants will reflect on the contribution and impact of the deceased.

 

Book Reviews. Authors are encouraged to submit reviews of books or a collection of articles when such reviews illuminate the work of technical communication administrators interested in the theory and practice of program development and administration.

Tracy Bridgeford

Tracy Bridgeford teaches courses in and directs the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She also directs the English Department internship program at UNO. As Chief Information Officer, Tracy maintains CPTSC's website and other communication needs. With Drs. Karla Saari Kitalong and Dickie Selfe, she co-edited Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication. Tracy also guest edited (with Michael Moore) a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly on Techne and Technical Communication. She is also the education officer for the Heartland Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Information about her courses, research, and teaching philosophy can be found on her personal website.

 

Michael J. Salvo

Michael J. Salvo is Director of Professional Writing and Associate Professor in the Rhetoric and Composition Program at Purdue University. He is a founding member and on the editorial board of Kairos, the longest continuously publishing online journal in new media, rhetoric and writing; he won the Hugh Burns Award in computers and writing; and received the Ellen Nold Award for research published in Computers and Composition and the Kairos Best Webtext Award. Michael’s research on usability, assessment, and information architecture has been published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, and has published many book chapters. He served as 2007 conference chair for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) annual conference and has been a proud member of CPTSC since 2000.

 

Bill Williamson

Bill Williamson is Associate Professor of Professional and Technical Writing at Saginaw Valley State University where he serves as coordinator of PTW programs. He has taught writing and design courses (primarily with a technical communication connection) at Michigan Technological University, the University of Northern Iowa, and now at SVSU. In addition, he has offered through consultation a variety of workshops focused on job seeking, grant seeking, and various elements of technical communication. Bill has held assistant or associate editor positions for scholarly publications such as Computers and Composition, and the CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. His publishing projects include book chapters on program administration and cross-curriculum pedagogical design. He is currently developing a supplemental textbook for Pearson. Bill served CPTSC as Information Officer from 2000-2005. He now serves as co-editor for Programmatic Perspectives, the journal of CPTSC.

Mark Hannah

Mark A. Hannah is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Purdue University. His dissertation draws on rhetoric, technical and professional communication, and political science theory to develop a rhetoric of connectivity for engaging in and writing about public policy issues. He currently is working as a graduate teaching instructor in the Professional Writing Program at Purdue University where he has taught undergraduate courses in Research, Technical Writing, and Business Writing and a graduate practicum course for new professional writing instructors. He previously worked as an attorney and consultant and has a forthcoming article in Technical Communication Quarterly regarding the intersections of law and technical communication.

 

Gregory Thompson

Forthcoming...

The Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) requires the following agreements of prospective authors.

• Authors acknowledge that their submission is original material, not previously published, and not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication.
• Authors grant the CPTSC permission to publish the submission in Programmatic Perspectives. Authors acknowledge that Programmatic Perspectives is an online publication, and that the submission will thus be available in that form indefinitely.

The CPTSC grants colleges, universities, and libraries permission to use materials published in Programmatic Perspectives free of charge for educational purposes.

Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State University

Jo Allen, Widener University

Stevens Amidon, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Cheryl Ball, Illinois State University

Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware

Stuart Blythe, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Jennifer Bowie, Georgia State University

Ann Brady, Michigan Tech University

Kelli Cargile Cook, Texas Tech University

J. Harrison Carpenter, University of Colorado at Boulder

Nancy Coppola, New Jersey Institute of Technology

David Dayton, Towson University

Stan Dicks, North Carolina State University

Sam Dragga, Texas Tech University

James Dubinsky, Virginia Tech

Angela Eaton, Texas Tech University

Michelle Eble, Eastern Carolina University

Doug Eyman, George Mason University

Jay Gordon, Youngstown State University

Jeffrey Grabill, Michigan State University

Barbara Heifferon, Rochester Institute of Technology

James Henry, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Brent Henze, North Carolina State University

K. Alex IIyasova, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Dan Jones, University of Central Florida

James Kalmbach, Illinois State University

Bill Karis, Clarkson University

Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Institute of Technology

Barbara L’Eplattenier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Bernadette Longo, University of Minnesota

Michael G. Moran, University of Georgia

Rick Mott, Eastern Kentucky University

Cezar Ornatowski, San Diego State University

Elizabeth Pass, James Madison University

Tiffany Craft Portewig, Auburn University

Janice (“Ginny”) Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc.

Geoff Sauer, Iowa State University

Blake Scott, University of Central Florida

Graham Smart, Carleton University

Kirk St. Amant, East Carolina University

Barry Thatcher, New Mexico State University

Wanda Worley, Purdue University

Dave Yeats, Perceptive Sciences Corporation